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The fundamental principles of the Red Cross, peace and human rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jacques Moreillon*
Affiliation:
Director, Department of Principles and Law at the ICRC

Extract

The theme of this paper is not an easy one. The difficulty of our subject is twofold: on the one hand, two of its three facets (peace and human rights) raise conceptual and interpretative problems; on the other hand, to deal with them together would involve finding a common factor, something which is not obvious even—perhaps especially—within the limited framework of the Red Cross movement.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1980

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References

page 171 note 1 Paper read at the Sixth Round Table on current problems of International Humanitarian Law and Red Cross Symposium, San Remo, 5–8 September 1979.

page 181 note 1 See Moreillon, J., The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Protection of Political Detainees, International Review of the Red Cross, 11 1974.CrossRefGoogle Scholar